Update June 5: Please Assist Me has received investment of undisclosed magnitude from LA-based Backstage Capital.-Ed.

IN A FIELD OF 10 STARTUPS, Co-Founder and CEO Stephanie Cummings and her Please Assist Me Inc. startup won last week's Nashville Entrepreneur Week (NEW) "Catfish Tank" pitch competition, held at oneC1TY.

The other nine startups participating in this year's NEW pitchday are listed later in this story.

Notably, earlier this month, Memphis-based ServiceMaster and StartCo announced that Please Assist Me was inducted into their new Launch Delta Home Services Accelerator (site here).

Last Fall, Nashville-based Please Assist Me was also a finalist in Chattanooga's "Will This Float?" contest, and more recently the startup has received valuable "case management" support via staff of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, said Cummings.

Cummings also this week told Venture Nashville that she's working to raise a total $500K in Seed capital for the company by roughly mid-August, when she'll participate in a citywide entrepreneurial Demo Day in Memphis.

She said that in addition to $5K cash she received from sponsor Baker Donelson for her winning NEW pitch last week, she has raised $95K toward her Seed-capital objective. The top NEW prize also came with $5K worth of Baker Donelson services.

Cummings and Co-Founder/COO Seany Denson have begun earning revenue for their tech-enabled Personal Assistant services package for taking care or common household chores, and they project hitting $8K or greater monthly recurring revenue by mid-2018, the CEO told VNC this week. The team currently totals 5 FTE, including six part-timers.

Ultimately, the company's goal is to achieve Platform as a Service (PaaS) status, by which point it will rely heavily on contractors to deliver on-site services. One objective is establishing the company as the preferred personal-services provider within apartment complexes and other multi-housing communities.

Cummings is the company's "tech founder," responsible for -- in addition to sales and raising capital -- building V 1.0 of its software application. Seed proceeds will go partly toward building-out V 2.0.

The startup's advisors include Nashville attorneys with Baker Donelson and Cummings banks with Wells Fargo.

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Lest it go unsaid: The creators of "The Catfish Tank" label used in this story apparently intend the reference to evoke not disgust, but some form of pleasure, or even a degree of civic pride or chauvinism among fans of the NHL Nashville Predators. During hockey games, some aroused Predators fans feel moved to heave dead Catfish onto the ice, in protest and/or celebration. In begrudgingly using the Catfish reference, Venture Nashville intends no disrespect to the pitching startups, the judges or potential investors, nor to any species of Catfish or to those who fish for them.-Ed.